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The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public wanted was the future.

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William Gibson
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 17
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William Ford Gibson
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The 'Net is a waste of time.
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As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically induced social change. I roam up and down it in a kind of special way because I roam down it into history, which is invariably itself a speculative affair.
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Every shop in every High Street in Europe is filled with basically the same stuff. There's a street in every city of the world that has a Gap and Benneton's, and the upscale versions of those.
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I feel like I've been very fortunate in that I've stuck like a burr to the dog-leg of the next generation of nerdism. I've been carried into the XXIth century on Bill Gates' pants-cuff.
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The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.
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I'm not the only one: witness Pokemon! They still keep coming up with this stuff that just rivets us in unexpected areas.
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